1st Edition
Jewish Environmentalism in the Post-Secular Age Earthly Spirituality
Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter 1: Post-Secularism: Science, Religion and Spirituality. Chapter 2: Jewish Environmentalism: An Overview. Chapter 3: God and the World in Jewish Eco-Theologies. Chapter 4: Earth-Based Judaism: Feminist Variants. Chapter 5: The Holy Land: Zionism and the Dialectic of Post-Secularism. Chapter 6: Science, Environment, and Secularism in the "New Promised Land". Chapter 7: Tikkun Olam: Resacralizing Nature and Politics. Conclusion. Index.
Biography
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jersualem, 1978) is Regents Professor of History and Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. A Jewish intellectual historian, Tirosh-Samuelson writes on Jewish philosophy and mysticism, religion, science, and technology, and religion and ecology. In addition to seventy-five essays and book chapters, she is the author of three monographs – the award-winning, Between Worlds: The Life and Thought of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon (1991); Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge and Well-Being (2003), and Religion and Environment: The Case of Judaism (2020). She is also the editor of eight volumes including Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed World (2002) and The Legacy of Hans Jonas: Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life (2008). Tirosh-Samuelson is the Editor-in-Chief of the Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophy (2012-2018), a set of 21 volumes.
